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Consumers are risking their long-term health for short-term weight loss. When will they wake up and eat more fruits, vegetables, beans and whole grains and less sugary processed foods? JUDY DOHERTY Weston, Fla...
...March, Harvard announced that it was joining the Fair Labor Association (FLA), a government-initiated partnership of businesses and other concerned parties that will start monitoring next year...
...amid concerns that the FLA is too soft on industry, Harvard has also made a one-year deal with four other universities to coordinate sweatshop policies and monitoring systems. It has also hired an accounting and consulting firm, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, to conduct the oversight...
PSLM members have asked the University to withdraw from the FLA. Because it has ties with industry, student activists say, the association is likely to do spotty and infrequent inspections, and might not have a strong enough commitment to disclosing factory locations...
...FLA's purpose] is to massage American consumers," Freeman says. "They're going to be as least good as they...